Abstract
Dr. R was back on 3 West and looking the worse for wear. Colon cancer, partial resection, bowel obstruction, ischemia, second surgery, bleeding, third surgery, infectious colitis, four days in the ICU—this 90-year-old man, who his wife assured us was bright and vibrant before his admission, was not long for this world. His baseline dementia had begotten daily delirium. He had had heart failure and COPD before his admission, and his fluid retention had swelled his already substantial body habitus to uncomfortable proportions.
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White, MD, Jeffrey
(2024)
"Quantum of Solace,"
The Medicine Forum: Vol. 25, Article 26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29046/TMF.025.1.025
Available at:
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/tmf/vol25/iss1/26
